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Director Nicholas Payne Santos’ atmospheric horror short Strange Creatures finds a grieving sister searching for her deceased brother at the site of his death. Santos, whose filmmaking more commonly falls into horror comedy territory, as was seen on Dn’s pages back in 2017 with his short Holiday Fear, switches gears into more dramatic fare with Strange Creatures and the results are superb. It’s a short dripping with dread and tension and sees Santos embrace some excellent practical special effects for the film’s antagonistic force. Dn is delighted to be sharing Strange Creatures on this spookiest day of the year in conjunction with our conversation with Santos where he talks through the personal bereavement that inspired the short, his motivation to switch from horror comedy to something more supernatural, and the decision to buck the trend and go without a score in order to amplify the on-screen tension.

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